The Edge of the City (aka A Man is Ten Feet Tall)
(Movies) WhenNovember 24, 2014 <m>(Monday)WhereBFI SOuthbankBelvedere Road
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Event Details
Birth of the Method
The Edge of the City (aka A Man is Ten Feet Tall)
This film broke new ground in its portrayal of a mixed-race friendship between two dock workers.
USA 1957
Directed by Martin Ritt
With John Cassavetes, Sidney Poitier, Jack Warden, Ruby Dee
85 min
PG
Likened to On the Waterfront because of its New York dockside setting and exposure of corruption, Martin Ritt's gritty film revolves around two superb performances from John Cassavetes and Sidney Poitier. Cassavetes plays a new-to-the-job drifter in twitchy Method-style, who antagonises the crooked foreman before being taken under the wing of Poitier's experienced porter. The film broke new ground in its portrayal of a mixed-race friendship, and in its positioning of Poitier as the role model.